we are exuberantly ecstatic to be performing as part of this year’s

OUTSIDE THE BOX FESTIVAL

a FREE (yes, FREE) arts & culture festival on Boston Common July 13-17th

our set is SATURDAY JULY 16TH at the TREMONT TENT* at 6pm sharp

our lineup will be DYLAN JACK [drums], TANYA PHILIPS [pedal harp], RACHEL JAYSON [viola], PETALUMA VALE [backup vox], & MALI [piano & laryngitis-recovering lead vox]

come early to catch our dear friend’s WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. FOX who play the same stage at 3pm

more details & a full event schedule here:

http://otbboston.com/

~ come celebrate summer in the city with us ~

* the Tremont Tent is located along Tremont Street ~ here’s a map

hi folks, mali here.

despite our very best intentions, we are needing to cancel our weekend shows in NY (Saturday in Schenectady and Sunday in Brooklyn). i still have laryngitis & speaking feels like trying to push/force/strain my voice through a thick barrier.

arrrrrrgh.

what’s almost equally annoying is that i cannot get this goddamned post to format all center, blast it!!!!!! what’s wrong with your wordpress!!!!!?!?!?!?

that being said, we have three other shows coming up, that SHOULD be far enough away for me to be well by.

these are . . . .

“Luminarium Dance Company is proud to present this year’s Cultural Community Outreach Project: 300 Years. Join us for an afternoon of dance and live music celebrating the Wayside’s tricentennial, featuring outdoor performances by Boston’s award-winning Luminarium Dance Company and composer Mali Sastri. This 40-minute performance of contemporary dance and live music (voice and cello) will be presented three times:

SUNDAY, JULY 10*
@ NOON, 1:30PM, & 3PM

the event takes place at:

The Grist Mill at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
72 Wayside Inn Rd, Sudbury MA

i am hoping beyond all hope that i recover my voice soon & all these shows can happen according to plan.

fingers-crossed love, & thank you for your support,
mali + Jaggery

[from our last show at Oberon]

greetings from the sick bed.
singer mali here.
last Tuesday, the band & i headed out for our June/July East Coast tour, but after our first show that night, in Kingston, NY, i was felled by a Mighty Cold which stole my voice and hasn’t returned it since.

salt was gargled [at rest stops], vitamin C was swallowed, throat coat tea was drunk, & sleep was attempted to be had from the van, but The Mighty Cold would just not let up. instead it intensified into a Relentless Cough From Hell (just ask my bandmates), and The Sore Throat Of A Lifetime.

we cancelled our Philly show.
we played Baltimore instrumentally, with our harp sub Tanya ending the set with a few of her own gorgeous harp-electro-pop songs (including this one which you really should check out, it’s lovely).

medical intervention was attempted in DC, where our show was cancelled b/c of the host coming down with an illness of his own. it was starting to feel like this tour was cursed.

3 prescriptions, and numerous homeopathic remedies later, the laryngitis was just not budging. i couldn’t talk, let alone sing.
we made the difficult decision on Sunday to head back to Boston so i could properly recover, & we’ve  regretfully had to cancel the following shows:

6/27 in  Indianapolis, IN
6/28 in Chicago, IL
6/30 in Toronto, ON
7/1 in Buffalo, NY

we have our hopes that i’ll be able to sing by this weekend, and we have notcanceled our show on Saturday in Schenectady or our show in Brooklyn on Sunday.
we will keep you posted.

it’s been rough, to say the least ~ disappointing, frustrating.
my body is just saying “no” & i can’t talk it out of it ~ hell, i haven’t been able to talk in 7 days.

we are so sorry to miss many of you this time around.

& of course it could always be worse:
– we could have crashed the van
– we could have forgotten gear somewhere along the way (it’s happened before)
– the UK could have voted out of the EU
oh, wait . . .

see you on the other side of this thing.

love,
Jaggery

p.s. perhaps an offering to Ursula is what’s needed?

In a few short days, Mali, Tony, Daniel, Rachel, and Tanya are hitting the road for an East Coast-ish tour!

Dates and cities below, and details here

Hope to see you at at one of these shows!